The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.